This code is primarally maintained by:
Zack Oyafuso (Zack.Oyafuso AT noaa.gov; @zoyafuso-NOAA)
Emily Markowitz (Emily.Markowitz AT noaa.gov; @EmilyMarkowitz-NOAA)
Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering Division (RACE)
Groundfish Assessment Program (GAP)
7600 Sand Point Way, N.E. bldg. 4
Seattle, WA 98115 USA
The code in this repository is regularly being updated and improved. Please refer to releases for finalized products and project milestones.
User Resources
Cite this data
Use the below bibtext citations, as cited in our group’s citation repository for citing the data created and maintained in this repo. Add “note = {Accessed: mm/dd/yyyy}” to append the day this data was accessed. Included here are AFSC RACE Groundfish and Shellfish Assessment Program’s:
- Design-Based Production Data [@GAPProducts].
- Public Data hosted on the Fisheries One Stop Shop (FOSS) Data Platform [@FOSSAFSCData].
@misc{GAPProducts,
author = {{NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Goundfish Assessment Program}},
year = {2023},
title = {AFSC Goundfish Assessment Program Design-Based Production Data},
howpublished = {https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/science-data/groundfish-assessment-program-bottom-trawl-surveys},
publisher = {{U.S. Dep. Commer.}},
copyright = {Public Domain}
}
@misc{FOSSAFSCData,
author = {{NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center}},
year = {2023},
title = {Fisheries One Stop Shop Public Data: RACE Division Bottom Trawl Survey Data Query},
howpublished = {https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/foss},
publisher = {{U.S. Dep. Commer.}},
copyright = {Public Domain}
}Or cite our latest data reports for survey-specific data and other findings:
Bottom trawl surveys and regions
- Aleutian Islands (AI) [@AI2018]
- Triennial (1990s)/Biennial since 2000 in even years
- Modified Index-Stratified Random of Successful Stations Survey Design
- Eastern Bering Sea Slope (BSS) [@RN979]
- Intermittent (funding dependent)
- Modified Index-Stratified Random of Successful Stations Survey Design
- Eastern Bering Sea Shelf (EBS) [@2022NEBS2023]
- Annual
- Fixed stations at center of 20 x 20 nm grid
- Gulf of Alaska (GOA) [@GOA2018]
- Triennial (1990s)/Biennial since 2001 in odd years
- Stratified Random Survey Design
- Northern Bering Sea (NBS) [@2022NEBS2023]
- Biennial/Annual
- Fixed stations at center of 20 x 20 nm grid
Access Constraints
There are no legal restrictions on access to the data. They reside in public domain and can be freely distributed.
User Constraints: Users must read and fully comprehend the metadata prior to use. Data should not be used beyond the limits of the source scale. Acknowledgement of AFSC Groundfish Assessment Program, as the source from which these data were obtained, in any publications and/or other representations of these data, is suggested.
General questions and more specific data requests can be sent to afsc.gap.metadata@noaa.gov or submitted as an issue on our GitHub Organization. The version of this data used for stock assessments can be found through the Alaska Fisheries Information Network (AKFIN). For questions about the eastern Bering Sea surveys, contact Duane Stevenson (Duane.Stevenson@noaa.gov). For questions about the Gulf of Alaska or Aleutian Islands surveys, contact Ned Laman (Ned.Laman@noaa.gov). For questions specifically about crab data in any region, contact Mike Litzow (Mike.Litzow@noaa.gov), the Shellfish Assessment Program lead.
For questions, comments, and concerns specifically about the Fisheries One Stop Shop (FOSS) platform, please contact us using the Comments page on the FOSS webpage.
Suggestions and comments
If the data or metadata can be improved, please create a pull request, submit an issue to the GitHub organization or submit an issue to the code’s repository.
R Version Metadata
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